Unix Programming - Finding signal disposition after core

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Finding signal disposition after core

Robert M. Gary

2004-10-28, 8:47 pm

My customer just sent me a gcore off a Solaris 8 machine. I believe Oracle
has stolen the SIGCHLD handler but I need to prove it. Is there anyway I can
ask dbx (or gdb) what the signal disposition was before the core? Is this
info even saved in the core?

Thanks!
-Robert

joe@invalid.address

2004-10-29, 2:48 am

"Robert M. Gary" <robert_gary@agilent.com> writes:

> My customer just sent me a gcore off a Solaris 8 machine. I believe
> Oracle has stolen the SIGCHLD handler but I need to prove it. Is
> there anyway I can ask dbx (or gdb) what the signal disposition was
> before the core? Is this info even saved in the core?

I'm not aware of any way you could do that. However, you might try
getting the customer to run the program under truss and send you the
output. You could see if Oracle is setting a handler.

Joe
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